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Anyone have an idea of how much these cost to manufacture of comparable capacity, and where this information can be found? Like, the price of a dual-layer BR disc (50gb) vs a 64GB ROM chip. Non-rewritable.

I don't know what cuts Sony, MS and Nintendo take and if that is in addition to anything the blu ray peeps leverage or instead of but it should get you ballpark figures. The difference in ballpark could well be margin destroying but it is not like it is dozens of times more expensive like it might have been at various points in the past.

I don't know what cuts Sony, MS and Nintendo take and if that is in addition to anything the blu ray peeps leverage or instead of but it should get you ballpark figures. The difference in ballpark could well be margin destroying but it is not like it is dozens of times more expensive like it might have been at various points in the past.

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you can use multi flashes to get to the point of being usefull... that's what i did at school to get some space for a console... with the right knowledge you might net even need that much flash chips to get a whole lot of extra spce... just dig a bit deeper into the detailes of how it works, and how to adres the spaces... still i'd go for a disc since it's much easier to program the reader... but you could compare a ssd-drive to a bd-drive/hdd-drive... those are large enough i guess.

Oh yeah if it had just been "we only sell 16 gig ROM chips" then I would have doubled up and called it interleaved or paged or something. I was just getting back things like http://www.aliexpress.com/item/10pc...10&btsid=58a24c67-5794-40c1-8c3d-bac218af6e42 which is in the megabytes/kilobytes range. When I could then go on amazon and order a single branded 128 gig microSD for $30 I went for NAND instead. 128 gigs is perhaps a bit much here so drop it down a bit and it drops in price too, equally most of those are chips with good write speeds which is not likely to be needed for a game (you have what updates and maybe some persistence in the game world if you are going really fancy) -- you buy a million old NAND chips binned for low speed writes and watch that price tumble.